Where do we start?

Where do we begin?

1. Goals?
2. Users?
3. Hardware?
4. Software?
5. Data?
6. Rules/procedures
7. Timeline
8. Promotion
9. Curriculum

1. Clarifying our goal: What is the goal of St Pats?

• To get the users (students) more involved in school
• Engage them in their courses?
• Engage them into the real world?
• Use the latest IT to learn outside the classroom walls?
• Communicate/learn outside the box
• Promote St Pats?
• To educate in a collaborative, instead of competitive setting using the latest technologies?
• Encourage students to act on the world’s greatest challenges?

2. Who are the users and the stakeholders?

• Students
  • Where do we begin?
  • Introduce a Grade 9 computer literacy course?
  • Use web 2.0 software, working collaboratively in the cloud computing arena?
• parents
  • how do we communicate with parents?
  • Do they want their children in a new system of education, not streamlines, unstructured classroom without walls
  • …with open ended solutions, project based learning?
• Board personnel:
  • as roadblocks
  • as experts
• teachers
  • all teachers?
  • early adapters?
  • Young teachers?
  • Teachers who teach in courses that would cater to “Global Issues?
  • Who decides?
  • Volunteers?
  • Voting?
  • Interested teachers?
  • Interested teachers who present ideas, proposals etc?

3. Hardware:
·Obviously we want computers that work half decently and access to the internet from every classroom.

4. Software tools:

What are the projects, only then can we know what tools to use/purchase, or download.




Start Small:
Prototype.Think globally, act locally